Hallelujah, we’ve found a paint color!  A few weeks ago I decided that an after-dinner coffee break was essential to life-with-a-child-productivity and I can honestly say we’ve done more in the past few weeks than we have in the previous four months added together.  The main thing accomplished?  The exhaustive process of picking out paint colors and painting.

I don’t know why we are so bad at settling on a color but within the past month we’ve had twelve different swatches of paint up on our walls. Giraffe-esque in a very bad way.  We tried every single light gray/white color we could think of but our living room gets such strange light that any color we tried ended up looking completely different in the day than it did at night.

From left to right: Revere Pewter, Stone Harbor, Smoke Embers, Barren Plain

We tried Benjamin Moore Revere Pewter, Stone Harbor, Barren Plain, Smoke Embers at 100%, Smoke Embers at 75%, Smoke Embers at 25%, and a few other random colors that never made it beyond a 2′ x 2′ patch on the wall.  Side note: I am well aware of just how completely neurotic we are—it’s not Nathan’s fault, I bring him down.

After sitting with each of the light colors for a while, we decided to go dark.  Really dark.  Gentleman’s Club dark.  We desperately need some things to warm up the room but I’m totally digging it!  Nathan thinks we should paint the woodwork dark as well, but I’m on the fence… it’s so much work and I just don’t know if we have the energy even with my post-dinner coffee break.